SKETCH OF SUSPECT RELEASED IN SHOOTING OF OCEANSIDE YOUTH SOCCER COACH

The 31-year-old woman said she exited the bus about 8:10 p.m. at Logan Avenue and Sampson Street. She was walking north on Sampson when she was knocked to the ground from behind by two men. They covered her head with a jacket, then sexually assaulted her, police said.

No description of the suspects was released. The assault occurred behind a Dumpster, according to 10News, a media partner of U-T San Diego.

Police are continuing to investigate another sexual assault reported early Sunday at a trolley station in Lincoln Park. An 18-year-old woman told police that she was waiting for the trolley at the Euclid Avenue station about 4:15 a.m. when a man approached and lured her to a secluded area nearby.

Susan Shroder • U-T

Zahau’s family asks D.A.’s office, attorney general for investigations

Coronado

An attorney for the family of Rebecca Zahau, the Arizona woman who was found hanging at the Coronado Spreckels mansion in July, has filed requests with the county District Attorney’s Office and state Attorney General’s Office asking for independent investigations into the death.

Investigators from the Sheriff’s Department and Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a suicide, but Zahau’s family continues to suspect foul play.

Seattle-based attorney Anne Bremner said Tuesday that she had asked the attorney general to look at the case previously but was told to first try to get the investigation reopened by sheriff’s officials. Since the Sheriff’s Department declined, Bremner submitted the request again to state and local prosecutors, she said.

A pathologist hired by the family to conduct a second autopsy has raised questions about Zahau’s injuries, her bindings and the analysis of DNA and blood samples.

Zahau, 32, was found hanging nude and bound at the hands and feet from a balcony on July 13. The oceanfront home belonged to her boyfriend, Jonah Shacknai, CEO of Arizona-based Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp.

Investigators said Zahau was distressed about critical injuries suffered by Shacknai’s 6-year-old son, Max, who fell from a second-story staircase days earlier. Zahau had been baby-sitting Max that day. He later died.